Former football coach Barry Bennell faces further child sex charges

Louise Cooper

A former football coach with links to Derbyshire has today (Thursday) been charged with further sexual offences.

Barry Bennell, 63, has been charged with four counts of indecent assault on a boy aged 11 to 12 years.

On Tuesday, Bennell was charged with eight counts of non-recent child sexual abuse - five counts of buggery with a boy aged under 16; two counts of indecent assault on a boy aged under 15 and indecent assault on a boy under 16.

He will appear via video link at South Cheshire Magistrates’ Court on Monday, March 13 in relation to these charges.

Bennell, who was once employed at a children's home in Derbyshire, has previously pleaded not guilty to eight charges of sexual assault against a boy under 16.

The former youth coach at Crewe Alexandra, who lives in Milton Keynes, denied the eight counts when he appeared at Chester Crown Court in January.